Why do schooling returns differ? Screening private schools, and labor markets in the Philippines and Thailand

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 959-981

  Yamauchi, Futoshi ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOR MARKET; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

EID: 24344462309     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/429151     Document Type: Article

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